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Lindsay Lohan's dad may be serving a stretch in prison, but he still has dreams of starring in his own television series.

The last time Michael Lohan tasted freedom, he was on his way to having that dream come true-- taping a pilot for a series he'd envisioned as a tabloid-bashing talk show called "The Lowdown,"' but that the producers planned as a reality series called "Hollywood Dad" (built around Lohan's futile efforts to contact his daughter-- with a Rupert Pupkin talk show in the middle).

But that was two years ago. On the day Lohan was supposed to bring his pal Tom Sizemore to the taping in LA, Sizemore was busted for drugs and Lohan disappeared, only to turn up a few days later, under arrest in Long Island for violating a restraining order taken out by his family. Within weeks, a mysterious, fiery drunk-driving crash landed him in prison for a laundry list of convictions, including assault on a sanitation worker and beating his brother-in-law with a shoe.

Lohan called us to say he's once again been denied parole. He says that if he's rejected at his next hearing in three months, he'll be in the big house in upstate New York until at least October 2007. But the Dad from Hell says he's got a Heavenly edge this time around: he's not only found God, but he's become an ordained minister. Lohan didn't say whether he'd done it online or sent in a self-addressed stamped envelope, but before the prison cut off his phone call, he did quote Scripture and say he now wants to star in a TV series that teaches kids the evils of drugs.

And hey, if that doesn't work out, there's always the reality version of Oz.